Let me dust off the old RSS and post.php here and get an update on rallynotes.com. What’s been happening and what’s planned for the rallynotes.com rally team?

New Headquarters: We will be moving to Long Beach, CA in the next month. We bought a house with a garage and enough yard space for a bigger ‘future‘ garage / shop. This was the goal for 2009 and although we missed competing this year, we’ll be in good shape for next year. As new home owners we will have a million side projects that don’t involve rally, but it will be nice to have the rally car at arms length instead of 20+ miles away.

Supporting the sport: We’ve been volunteering and continue to volunteer to support our local events, and we hope you do too! High Desert Trails, Desert Storm, Gorman Ridge Rally, Prescott, etc. We’ll be out there helping out in some capacity. Organizer, scoring, radio, etc. Zero car at Prescott. We’ll see you on the stages!

A look back: Over the next few months I’d like to take a retrospective look at the Dodge Rally Neon. A lot of you had questions that maybe went unanswered, and a lot of rules have changed since I started building the car in 2003. There are a lot of cheap cars and rally cars for sale out there. I’m hoping to inspire some new competitors into the most exciting motorsport in the world. Now would be the best time to point your RSS reader here.

The future: MMX. The building of the next car. My goal is to do a rally in 2010 with the new G5 car. Will that be late in the season? Probably… I plan to gather a running ‘shell’ at the end of this year. Hopefully just as I have written everything I know about the Dodge Rally Neon, I’ll start posting pictures of seam welding on the new shell.

Next time: We’ll start from the beginning. “Selecting a car for rally. Why I chose the Dodge Neon.” Stay tuned! – Kris